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Symone Sanders Fox News anchor Dana Perino persistently asked Biden campaign senior adviser Symone Sanders to name “one example of a lie” from President Donald Trump or the White House on the coronavirus during an interview last night, so Sanders repeatedly obliged. Perino began by playing a clip of former Vice President Joe Biden taking a shot at Trump during his Wednesday commencement speech, during which he said “You can build a truly representative democracy with more facts than lies.”
Perino asked "what specifically would he be talking about?” When Sanders answered that "the reality is that there has been a lot of misinformation touted about the coronavirus," Perino pressed for examples.
"I can't think of one," said Perino. "I would just like even, like, one example of a lie from the White House about the coronavirus pandemic."
“Everyone that wants a test can get a test. How about that lie," Sanders offered, before going into a litany of other examples.
It was a smoothly executed set of answers. When challenged to provide specifics, politicians and their representatives often demure or simply fall apart. Sanders, though, was more than ready. 6.5.0 |
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Chris and Andrew Cuomo CNN's Chris Cuomo has been interviewing his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a lot over the last few months of the coronavirus pandemic, for which the two have already faced varying degrees of criticism.
On Wednesday night, however, the joking around pushed a few more buttons than usual, and it wasn't a good look.
The governor earlier this week demonstrated a coronavirus test during a briefing. Using prop comedy in the form of a giant swab, his brother joked around about it on air. As the routine went on, the governor described himself as a "cool dude in a loose mood" during his coronavirus test.
The horseplay comes as Gov. Cuomo is facing serious scrutiny over his own response to the pandemic, particularly with regard to elderly care. Naturally, they were savaged on social media overnight, and that continued into the day Thursday.
The routine, the governor of one of the hardest hit states being interviewed by, and frequently joking around with, his own brother, is not a good one, for the network or the brothers.
An all-around losing media moment. 6.5.0 |
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| | Mask War "Employees are downright afraid to ask people to wear a mask.” That's what a United Food and Commercial Workers representative said on a press call Wednesday about grocery store employees who are increasingly worried about the "war" over wearing masks.
The union is calling for increased security, and no wonder. The “political war” over the issue, as one worker put it, has resulted in both absurd acts and violent ones, and many prominent figures on the right continue to encourage Americans to fight the policies put in place by these private businesses in the interest of their employees and customers.
'Victim Card'
Sean Hannity clashed a bit with Mark Cuban Wednesday night and was pretty surprised as the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner called out President Donald Trump’s leadership.
“[Trump is] the most powerful man in the world. Be powerful, be a leader, set an example… He’s supposed to be the world’s best counterpunch, he hasn’t been able to knock anybody out, he just plays the victim," said Cuban in the extensive back-and-forth.
36,000
A Columbia University research model has attempted to quantify the fatal costs of the country’s belated coronavirus response, as lead researcher Dr. Jeffrey Shaman discussed with CNN’s Don Lemon on Wednesday night.
The results showed that as many as 36,000 lives across the country, and more than half of the deaths seen in New York City, could have been saved
'This is not right, and it’s got to end. Enough is enough'
From their own homes and secure locations, where they continue to host broadcasts in the name of safety, the stars of Fox & Friends urged New York businesses to reopen en masse in spite of lockdown orders. They even suggested police would "cheer" businesses and individuals defying lockdowns.
'Is this a joke?'
Evidently, President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign has decided that their next, best chance to secure his re-election is to make their own copy of The View. It looks ... not great.
MI could take action
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel warned companies on CNN, Thursday that they could face sanctions if they allow President Donald Trump to visit their facilities without wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Pleading guilty
Actress Lori Loughlin — best known for her role as Aunt Becky on Full House — will plead guilty to a charge stemming from the college admissions scandal and will serve jail time.
'I got a bridge in Brooklyn'
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis angrily and vehemently lashed out at the press outside the White House when asked about his commitment to transparency on the coronavirus after the official running his state’s Covid-19 dashboard was abruptly fired on Tuesday.
The Room Rater
Mediaite interviewed Claude Taylor, known to Twitter as the Room Rater, about the widly popular account that hilariously judges the rooms of celebrities, politicians, and pundits by breaking down their Zoom and Skype backgrounds on a scale of 0 to 10.
Just how much does political bias contribute to the ratings? How can one earn a perfect score? And who had the best and worst rooms? Mediaite's Leia Idliby finds out here. 6.5.0 |
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| Late Night Round Up Late night hosts Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers mocked President Donald Trump’s attacks on absentee voting, pointing out he falsely claimed Michigan and Nevada were engaging in fraud. “There are two surefire ways to piss Donald Trump off: showing him that shirtless photo of Obama, and giving people access to mail-in votes,” Noah joked. Meyers also went after to Trump for threatening to withhold funding from Michigan, adding that no current voting system in the U.S. is reliable.
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